Probing anomalous tbW couplings in single-top production using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider

Details Probing anomalous tbW couplings in single-top production using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider Probing anomalous tbW couplings in single-top production using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider

2011-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2597v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

25 pages, 34 figures

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We study the sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to anomalous tbW couplings in single-top production in association with a W^- boson followed by semileptonic decay of the top. We calculate top polarization and the effects of these anomalous couplings to it at two centre-of-mass (cm) energies of 7 TeV and 14 TeV. As a measure of top polarization, we look at various laboratory frame distributions of its decay products, viz., lepton angular and energy distributions and b-quark angular distributions, without requiring reconstruction of the rest frame of the top, and study the effect of anomalous couplings on these distributions. We construct certain asymmetries to study the sensitivity of these distributions to anomalous tbW couplings. We find that 1\sigma limits on real and imaginary parts of the dominant anomalous coupling Ref_{2R} which may be obtained by utilizing these asymmetries at the LHC with cm energy of 14 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 10 fb^{-1} will be significantly better than the expectations from direct measurements of cross sections and some other variables at the LHC and over an order of magnitude better than the indirect limits.

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